Last year, the artificial intelligence of Viv has attracted much attention. Viv was founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham, the original creators of Siri. Since the first performance tests Viv proved to be a more powerful and capable than Siri personal assistantis made public. In fact one of the reasons why the creators of Siri left the company, after its purchase by Apple was the path marked by Apple for Siri, a very different path to which its creators had intended. To get even, these last three years have been working on Viv, which according to the specialized media is the best Wizard with existing artificial intelligence on the market today.
According to reports TechCrunch it company Korean Samsung just of acquire Viv to integrate it in its next devices. At the moment we do not know how much will be paid Samsung for Viv, but considering that Apple paid $ 200 million in 2010 to be done with Siri, the price of the agreement could be something higher. At the moment Viv will continue to operate as an independent company offering this service for all devices of the company where this artificial intelligence Assistant is implemented.
What makes Viv is a wizard improved compared to Siri is that integrates applications and third-party services, something that now Apple has begun to permit the arrival of iOS 10. With Viv can ask our smartphone send an über at our location, request a pizza four seasons, reserve a table at Rte Manolete… all of this without having to open the application at any time.
To carry out this project, the creators of Viv have secured funding from companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. Just Facebook and Google were interested in this wizard but negotiations for the sale were not satisfactory for either party. TechCrunch has been in contact with the Vice President of Samsung Jacopo Lenzi who said that Viv could have a direct impact on more than the Samsung mobile division:
This is an acquisition aimed at the mobile division, but we see the possibilities of integrating Viv in other devices that we manufacture. From our perspective and from the perspective of the customer, the interest and the power this intelligence artificial us offers an advantage important facing other competitors, adding an advantage facing them.
Viv would not only be integrated in mobile devices, but Samsung may also integrate them into appliances manufactured for controlling them by voice commands, TVs and any other devices that are likely to be controlled in this way.
The acquisition of Viv from Samsung gives the Korean company an advantage over other manufacturers of Android, especially taking into account that Google Assistant will only be available in terminals Pixel that the company presented a couple of days, at least at the moment. In addition the purchase of Viv allows you to continue to reduce dependence on Google as well as the opportunity to start implementing this wizard in Tizen, both in the version for smartphones in the version for smartwatches.
